Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Canoeing at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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C-1 500 m		men
C-1 1000 m		men
C-2 500 m		men
C-2 1000 m		men
K-1 500 m		men		women
K-1 1000 m		men
K-2 500 m		men		women
K-2 1000 m		men
K-4 500 m				women
K-4 1000 m		men

At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, twelve events in sprint canoe racing were contested. The program was unchanged from the previous Games in 1984.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
C-1 500 metres	Olaf Heukrodt (GDR)	Michał Śliwiński (URS)	Martin Marinov (BUL)
C-1 1000 metres	Ivans Klementyev (URS)	Jörg Schmidt (GDR)	Nikolay Bukhalov (BUL)
C-2 500 metres	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi (URS)	Marek Dopierała and Marek Łbik (POL)	Philippe Renaud and Joël Bettin (FRA)
C-2 1000 metres	Viktor Reneysky and Nicolae Juravschi (URS)	Olaf Heukrodt and Ingo Spelly (GDR)	Marek Dopierała and Marek Łbik (POL)
K-1 500 metres	Zsolt Gyulay (HUN)	Andreas Stähle (GDR)	Paul MacDonald (NZL)
K-1 1000 metres	Greg Barton (USA)	Grant Davies (AUS)	André Wohllebe (GDR)
K-2 500 metres	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	Igor Nagayev and Viktor Denisov (URS)	Attila Ábrahám and Ferenc Csipes (HUN)
K-2 1000 metres	Greg Barton and Norman Bellingham (USA)	Ian Ferguson and Paul MacDonald (NZL)	Peter Foster and Kelvin Graham (AUS)
K-4 1000 metres	Hungary (HUN) Zsolt Gyulay Ferenc Csipes Sándor Hódosi Attila Ábrahám	Soviet Union (URS) Aleksandr Motuzenko Sergey Kirsanov Igor Nagaev Viktor Denisov	East Germany (GDR) Kay Bluhm André Wohllebe Andreas Stähle Hans-Jörg Bliesener

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
K-1 500 metres	Vanja Gesheva (BUL)	Birgit Schmidt (GDR)	Izabela Dylewska (POL)
K-2 500 metres	Birgit Schmidt and Anke Nothnagel (GDR)	Vanja Gesheva and Diana Paliiska (BUL)	Annemiek Derckx and Annemarie Cox (NED)
K-4 500 metres	East Germany (GDR) Birgit Schmidt Anke Nothnagel Ramona Portwich Heike Singer	Hungary (HUN) Erika Géczi Erika Mészáros Éva Rakusz Rita Kőbán	Bulgaria (BUL) Vanja Gesheva Diana Paliiska Ogniana Petkova Borislava Ivanova

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany (GDR)	3	4	2	9
2	Soviet Union (URS)	3	3	0	6
3	Hungary (HUN)	2	1	1	4
4	United States (USA)	2	0	0	2
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	1	1	3	5
6	New Zealand (NZL)	1	1	1	3
7	Poland (POL)	0	1	2	3
8	Australia (AUS)	0	1	1	2
9	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1

References

• 1988 Summer Olympics official report Volume 2, Part 2. pp. 336–50. (English) & (French)